
Other View Settings
Miscellaneous Settings
There are a number of other slots you can add to a template to affect how the view is displayed. Here is a brief description of each one:
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viewOriginX
- Sets the amount of horizontal offset used when displaying the contents of a view. When set to 0, the contents of a view are displayed starting at the far left.
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viewOriginY
- Sets the amount of vertical offset used when displaying the contents of a view.
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viewFillPattern
- Sets a custom fill pattern for a view. The fill pattern is a 64-bit (8x8) binary object.
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viewFramePattern
- Sets a custom frame pattern for a view. The fill pattern is a 64-bit (8x8) binary object.
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viewTransferMode
- Specifies the transfer mode that is used for drawing in the view. The possible choices are modeCopy, modeOr, modeXor, modeBic, modeNotCopy, modeNotOr, modeNotXor, modeNotCopy, and modeMask.
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declareSelf
- The value of this slot is a symbol (commonly the symbol
'base
). This symbol will be created as a slot in the view of this template at run time and will point at the view itself.
An online version of Programming for the Newton using Macintosh, 2nd ed. ©1996, 1994, Julie McKeehan and Neil Rhodes.
Last modified: 1 DEC 1996